“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Adobe Patches 7 CVSS 10.0 Flaws in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Adobe has released patches for multiple maximum-severity security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign Classic. The ColdFusion updates “resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and security feature bypass,” Adobe said in an alert released Tuesday. The vulnerabilities are listedRead More
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Critical Cursor Flaws Could Let Prompt Injection Escape Sandbox and Run Commands [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Two flaws in Cursor, an AI code editor, could let a single, ordinary-looking prompt break out of the editor’s safety sandbox and run any command on a developer’s computer. There is no click to fall for and no approval box to ignore. Cato AI Labs found the pair and named them DuneSlide. They are tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549,…
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Progress Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Faces Active Exploitation Attempts [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster is seeing active exploitation attempts, according to an advisory from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). The Canadian cybersecurity company said it identified exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), an operating system (OS) command injection flaw that could be exploited to achieveRead More
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AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows and Android [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining “unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability” to turn it into a working ransomware technique that runs entirely inside the browser on both Windows and Android devices. “This is the first documented case where a frontier…
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2026 Cybersecurity Assessment: The Gap Between Awareness and Resilience [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Organizations have never had greater awareness of cyber risk. Yet turning that awareness into operational resilience has never been more challenging. The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment confirms this is the case, as this year’s findings reveal a series of surprising contradictions. Here are a few examples, based on the independent survey of 1,200 IT and…
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Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029 [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Microsoft on Tuesday said it’s accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected. “Advances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon,” Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, said. “We believeRead More
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Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 calls the trick phantom squatting, and its new research shows it is already happening in…
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Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 After U.S. Lifts Jailbreak-Linked Export Controls [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Anthropic is putting Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide. On June 30, the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls it had imposed on Fable and its more tightly controlled sibling Mythos 5 about two and a half weeks earlier. Fable 5 returns to users on Wednesday, July 1, across Claude.ai, the Claude Platform, Claude Code,…
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Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack” aimed at Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress, originates from an IPv6 address range (2a0a:d683::/32) controlled by internet infrastructure provider LSHIY LLC (AS32167). “Between June 12 and June 26, the threatRead More
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Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery [email protected] (The Hacker News)
ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands behind its fake “prove you’re human” pages are now handed out by API-driven servers that give each visitor the same malware in a different disguise. The same research also turned up a…
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